leading cause of deaths from physical trauma, according to new research. In recent years, more lives—and years of life—were lost to firearms than to motor vehicles. The majority of these deaths involved suicide, particularly among older white men, but Black Americans were more likely to die from gun-related homicide.among Americans ages 46 and younger, and motor vehicle fatalities have long been considered the top culprit.
For most of this time period, yearly car deaths continued to outnumber firearm deaths. But by 2018, guns were on top. That year, nearly 39,000 Americans were killed by guns, while around 37,000The researchers also attempted to calculate the years of potential life lost, which subtracts the age when someone dies from their expected mortality, in this case age 80. In 2017, the team calculated that 1.44 million years of life were lost to firearms, compared with 1.
DennisG_Shea And the US is already performs poorly for road safety compared to Canada and Europe. Laws for public safety matter.
One has to take a test and get a license to legally operate a car, *in every state.* Additionally, safety *regulations* such as seatbelts and blood alcohol limits reduce fatalities.
Well over time we keep making cars safer and safer. Also over time Americans keep getting more and more insane 😆
‘Murica!
Yawn
Why does it annoy me that they posted a German gun for this article? 🤔😆
So the true 'leading' cause is suicide, but you'd rather call it 'guns.' Does that make you evil?
It is NOT the weapon that is to blame, the criminals are to blame, who kill with weapons almost with impunity, knowing that not everyone has it and not everyone can give an armed rebuff. BUT, the main reason why they commit serious crimes is the modern 'tolerant' justice system!
I figured that was always the American Dream?
BanGunsNotBooks
Yet they won't ban them!
Fake news!
Wen airbags